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2010 WSOP Schedule
By Dan Cypra @ Poker News Daily
The schedule for the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was officially announced on Thursday and features a brand new $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship that will play out in an Eight Game format. Fifty-seven bracelets will be on the line.
The Player’s Championship is the most expensive event ever to kick off the WSOP, which is now in its 41st year. The $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship will award the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy to its victor and feature Limit Hold’em, Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud High-Low Split-8 or Better, No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball. The final table will be played solely in No Limit Hold’em and ESPN will provide television coverage of the event, which will likely bring out the very elite names in the poker community.
On the other end of the buy-in spectrum, six open $1,000 events will be held in addition to the traditional Ladies’ and Seniors’ Championships. The first five weekends of the 2010 WSOP, which begins on May 28th, will feature $1,000 buy-in tournaments. Last year, the Stimulus Special, which featured a $1,000 price tag, drew a record-setting crowd of 6,012 players to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The 2010 WSOP Main Event will kick off on July 5th, bucking a trend of beginning before the Fourth of July. The final table will be determined on July 17th and the third installment of the November Nine will take to the felts at the Rio from November 6th to 9th in what will likely be a similar schedule to this year. Players will purportedly be assigned a starting day for the Main Event to avoid a fiasco like the one that unfolded on Day 1D in 2009, when more than 500 poker hopefuls were shut out after the tournament reached capacity.
Without further delay, here is the schedule of events for the 2010 WSOP. All times are local:
Fri, May 28th at 12:00pm
Event #1: Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em
$500 buy-in
Fri, May 28th at 5:00pm
Event #2: The Player’s Championship
$50,000 buy-in
Sat, May 29th at 12:00pm
Event #3: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Sun, May 30th at 5:00pm
Event #4: Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in
Mon, May 31st at 12:00pm
Event #5: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Tue, Jun 1st at 12:00pm
Event #6: No Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 players max)
$5,000 buy-in
Tue, Jun 1st at 5:00pm
Event #7: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)
$2,500 buy-in
Wed, Jun 2nd at 12:00pm
Event #8: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Thu, Jun 3rd at 12:00pm
Event #9: Pot Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Thu, Jun 3rd at 5:00pm
Event #10: Seven Card Stud Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Fri, Jun 4th at 11:00am
Event #11: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Fri, Jun 4th at 11:00am
Event #12: Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Sat, Jun 5th at 11:00am
Event #13: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 5th at 5:00pm
Event #14: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No Limit)
$1,500 buy-in
Sun, Jun 6th at 5:00pm
Event #15: Seven Card Stud High-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Mon, Jun 7th at 12:00pm
Event #16: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$1,500 buy-in
Tue, Jun 8th at 12:00pm
Event #17: No Limit Hold’em
$5,000 buy-in
Wed, Jun 9th at 12:00pm
Event #18: Limit Hold’em
$2,000 buy-in
Wed, Jun 9th at 5:00pm
Event #19: 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No Limit)
$10,000 buy-in
Thu, Jun 10th at 12:00pm
Event #20: Pot Limit Omaha
$1,500 buy-in
Thu, Jun 10th at 5:00pm
Event #21: Seven Card Stud
$1,500 buy-in
Fri, Jun 11th at 12:00pm
Event #22: Ladies No Limit Hold’em Championship
$1,000 buy-in
Fri, Jun 11th at 5:00pm
Event #23: Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$2,500 buy-in
Sat, Jun 12th at 12:00pm
Event #24: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 12th at 5:00pm
Event #25: Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Mon, Jun 14th at 12:00pm
Event #26: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$2,500 buy-in
Mon, Jun 14th at 5:00pm
Event #27: Seven Card Stud High-Low-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in
Tue, Jun 15th at 12:00pm
Event #28: Pot Limit Omaha
$2,500 buy-in
Tue, Jun 15th at 5:00pm
Event #29: Limit Hold’em Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Wed, Jun 16th at 12:00pm
Event #30: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Wed, Jun 16th at 5:00pm
Event #31: HORSE
$1,500 buy-in
Thu, Jun 17th at 12:00pm
Event #32: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$5,000 buy-in
Thu, Jun 17th at 5:00pm
Event #33: Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha
$2,500 buy-in
Fri, Jun 18th at 12:00pm
Event #34: Seniors No Limit Hold’em Championship
$1,000 buy-in
Fri, Jun 18th at 5:00pm
Event #35: Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Championship (256 player max)
$10,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 19th at 12:00pm
Event #36: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 19th at 5:00pm
Event #37: HORSE
$3,000 buy-in
Sun, Jun 20th at 5:00pm
Event #38: Pot Limit Hold’em Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Mon, Jun 21st at 12:00pm
Event #39: No Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 player max)
$1,500 buy-in
Mon, Jun 21st at 5:00pm
Event #40: Seven Card Razz
$2,500 buy-in
Tue, Jun 22nd at 12:00pm
Event #41: Pot Limit Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in
Wed, Jun 23rd at 12:00pm
Event #42: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Wed, Jun 23rd at 5:00pm
Event #43: HORSE Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Thu, Jun 24th at 12:00pm
Event #44: Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit)
$2,500 buy-in
Fri, Jun 25th at 12:00pm
Event #45: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Fri, Jun 25th at 5:00pm
Event #46: Pot Limit Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$5,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 26th at 12:00pm
Event #47: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Sat, Jun 26th at 5:00pm
Event #48: Mixed Event
$2,500 buy-in
Mon, Jun 28th at 12:00pm
Event #49: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in
Mon, Jun 28th at 5:00pm
Event #50: Pot Limit Omaha
$5,000 buy-in
Tue, Jun 29th at 12:00pm
Event #51: Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em
$3,000 buy-in
Wed, Jun 30th at 12:00pm
Event #52: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$25,000 buy-in
Wed, Jun 30th at 5:00pm
Event #53: Limit Hold’em Shootout
$1,500 buy-in
Thu, Jul 1st at 12:00pm
Event #54: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in
Thu, Jul 1st at 5:00pm
Event #55: Pot Limit Omaha Championship
$10,000 buy-in
Fri, Jul 2nd at 5:00pm
Event #56: No Limit Hold’em
$2,500 buy-in
Sat, Jul 3rd at 2:00pm
Ante Up For Africa Poker Tournament
$5,000 buy-in
2010 WSOP Main Event:
July 5th: Day 1A
July 6th: Day 1B
July 7th: Day 1C
July 8th: Day 1D
July 9th: Day 2A
July 10th: Day 2B
July 11th: Media Event
July 12th: Day 3
July 13th: Day 4
July 14th: Day 5
July 15th: Day 6
July 16th: Day 7
July 17th: Day 8
November 6th to 9th: Final Table
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TMZ REPORTS!!
Poker Legends Sued for Robot Fraud
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 12:01AM by TMZ Staff
The biggest names in poker are being sued by two people who claim they were defrauded on an online poker site.
Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy claim they opened an account at fulltiltpoker.com and — as luck would have it — they amassed winnings of more than $80,000.
The famous poker defendants who own the site — including Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow — allegedly accused the plaintiffs of using an automated play functions called “robots” instead of playing the game themselves. Since using robots violates Full Tilt’s rules, the site’s owners confiscated more than $80,000.
There are other gripes as well in the lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, including an allegation that fulltilitpoker.com manipulates the game through the use of robots of its own so it becomes more a game of luck than skill which is outlawed in California.
TMZ STORY LINK HERE
Australian Poker Weekly No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Tournament
Celebrate the long weekend and the end to another season of NRL with a seat at the table for the first ever Australian Poker Weekly No Limit Hold’em tournament.
The winner of this prestigious event, will not only take home a huge cash prize, but will also grace the front of the newspaper. What’s more, you will also win a year’s subscription to the best thing to happen to Australian poker since Joe Hachem won the WSOP!
This event will be sure sell out, so get in early and register.
Date: Monday 5 October, 12:30 PM
Buy in: $500 ($450 + $50)
Starting Chips: $8,000 in non-value tournament chips
Blind Level Duration: 30 minutes
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Poker Pod Radio will be at the WSOP on June 25th to conduct several interviews with players & fans. I will be also be playing in 3 events as well! Until I get there, I will be posting news provided by Rounders Report, & Author Frank Wiese.
“Stimulus Special” Event Hits Capacity
Poker is officially dead.
Ok, maybe not.
The World Series of Poker juggernaut continues to roll on as Event #4 (the $1k NLHE “Stimulus Special” tournament) has officially been announced as a sell-out.
The World Series of Poker, in a press release issued earlier today, announced that the event has reached its cap of 6,000 players. 3,000 players are taking part in Day 1A (which started roughly three hours ago), and another 3,000 players will try their luck tomorrow.
This represents the largest ever turnout for a non-main event tournament in the history of the World Series of Poker. The previous record was established last year when 3,929 players turned out for a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event.
The winner of this year’s “Stimulus Special” tournament is guaranteed to receive at least $750k.
The first week of the 2009 World Series of Poker has provided nothing but good news, not only for the World Series of Poker, but also for poker in general.
Poker is clearly alive and well despite a global recession.
201 players turned out for the $40k NLHE tournament (Event #2), which created the largest non-Main event prize pool in WSOP history.
A staggering 918 players turned out for the $1,500 Omaha Hi/Low event yesterday, easily besting the old record of 833. According to the WSOP, this is the “largest live Omaha tournament ever played”. It should be interesting to see how the $1,500 PLO event on Monday does – I can’t see it having less players than the Omaha Hi/Low event.
All in all, the 2009 WSOP is off to an exceptional start.
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201 Players for 40k NLHE Event at WSOP
Posted by RounderKevin On May – 28 – 2009
The total number of entrants in Event #2 of the 2009 World Series of Poker ($40k NLHE) was a popular topic of debate over the past couple of months.
There were many side bets made prior to the World Series of Poker as to the total number of people that would sign up to play in this event.
Some people thought that the number would be 150. Others thought that this was far too pessimistic, and that the final total would fall somewhere in the 250-300 player range.
in the end, the total number of entrants was: 201.
This ends up creating a total prize pool of just over $7.7 million dollars.
The first place finisher in this event will walk away with just under $1.9 million dollars, while the runner-up will receive $1.17 million.
The top 27 finishers in this tournament will all receive at least $71,858.
All in all, certainly not a bad turnout for this event, given the size of the buy-in.
As you could expect, many of the top poker players in the world turned out for this event.
Names such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson are all playing today.
A number of poker’s “young guns”, including Justin Bonomo, Phil Galfond and Chad Batista, have all registered to play in the event as well.
A number of well-known names have already hit the rail, just a few short hours into the event.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Dario Minieri and Jonathan Little all hit the rail early on Day 1.
Ted Forrest, Antonio Esfandiari, Justin Bonomo and Tony G are all currently sitting near the top of the leaderboard.
Thanks Roundersreport.net
Florida Gambling Bill Passes Legislature. Huge Lift For Poker!!
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press Writer
Story Created: May 8, 2009 at 6:39 PM EDT
Story Updated: May 8, 2009 at 6:39 PM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Gov. Charlie Crist will negotiate – again – an agreement to let the Seminole Tribe install blackjack tables and slot machines at its casinos, but this time lawmakers won’t take him to court.
The House and Senate passed a bill (SB 788) Friday that sets guidelines for a compact with the tribe and authorizes Crist to work out the final details. The votes come a year and a half after Crist signed a compact with the tribe that’s similar to the proposed deal lawmakers approved.
Under the proposal going to Crist, the tribe would be able to run blackjack and other card games at their three Broward County casinos and the Hard Rock in Tampa. They would be able to install Las Vegas-style slots at all seven of their casinos, which also include locations in Big Cypress, Immokalee and Brighton.
In exchange, the state will get at least $150 million a year from the tribe – if it accepts the deal. The proposal isn’t quite as good for the tribe as the one the Supreme Court said Crist wasn’t authorized to sign in November 2007. That deal allowed blackjack and slots at all seven casinos and the minimum the tribe agreed to give the state was $100 million a year.
The legislative leaders at the time, House Speaker Marco Rubio and Senate President Ken Pruitt, went to the Supreme Court to challenge the agreement. Under the Crist deal, the tribe went ahead and set up the slot machines and blackjack, which it is still running.
If the tribe agrees to the deal and the federal government agrees to the deal, the money will be used to help pay for state schools.
“Today, we move closer to reaching an agreement that will support education, put unemployed Floridians back to work and bring economic relief to our state,” the tribe said in a statement. “We remain hopeful that together with Gov. Crist and the Legislature, we can agree upon a Compact.”
Senate President Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, said the tribe probably won’t get much better than what the proposal offers.
“This is a deal that they should take seriously and quickly negotiate and bring closure to,” Atwater said.
And if they do, he recommends a special session to ratify the deal so the state can get its money as soon as possible.
Horse and dog tracks and jai-alai frontons also get something from the bill. Poker rooms at the pari-mutuel facilities can stay open longer and they can have larger pots. Also, South Florida pari-mutuels where voters have already approved slot machines will have their tax rate on the slots profits reduced from 50 percent to 35 percent. They’ll also be able to run blackjack and other card games if voters approve.
“There were some people who would have liked more and some people would have liked to see a few things differently but all in all they did a great job,” said Dan Adkins, president of Mardi Gras Gaming at the Hallandale Beach dog track.
Crist praised lawmakers for coming to an agreement on a proposed compact, which was one of his session priorities.
“I now look forward to working closely with the Seminole Tribe to help secure the continued success of Florida’s students and teachers, and complete the work accomplished by the Florida Legislature,” Crist said in a prepared statement. “Florida’s future is brighter and stronger as a result of today’s agreement.”
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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She had 11 hours of soft tissue surgery on her face on the night of the accident, and there will be additional surgeries in the years to come. Her family is so thankful that she was fortunate enough to survive that evening and prays that this will not break her beautiful spirit.
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Join Host Jack McAdoo as he talks about the potential that poker has to bring in billions of dollars to the US economy. Also he asks’ you the listener to decide if he should continue the UIGEA series at poker@pokerpodradio.com
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Show 111 Is Up!!
After 100 years show 111 is finally up! LOL it took awhile but as I said in the show I have been doing a lot of things away from the show. But show 112 is already in the works and should be up early the week of March 2-6 2009.
I have mentioned several times that I have been trying to get this site up and running. As you can see it is still kind of “bare” and I dont like it. This is done in WordPress so it allows me to do a lot of things, but at the same time it doesnt so I am trying to find the right middle ground for it. So every once in awhile the site may be down for a few mins. If I decide to tear it down and start over I will revert back to the original site which is currently at http://blog.pokerpodradio.com Please bookmark that site in case you cant reach us here.
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Show 111 will be up soon!
I hope that everyone has been doing well since the holidays! Poker Pod Radio took the month of January off to work on the new site and new content for the upcoming year. Some new idea’s for the show will be implemented on 111 and a few will be inserted in the show in the months ahead.
I have lined up some great interviews for you and I still would like to ask that you submit ideas for the show as well as interviews that you would like to hear. You can send them to poker@pokerpodradio.com. You can continue to download the episodes from here, as well as ITunes and the new site http://pokerpodradio.com
I’m still working on putting everything together but it is taking time, time that its hard to come by lately lol ! I have been writing for Australian Poker Weekly in Australia & New Zealand, and working with Frank Wiese and his book “How to eat professional poker players alive”. You can visit his site at http://www.eatprofessionalpokerplayersalive.com to order the book, or at or store page on http://pokerpodradio.com
Show 111 should be up and ready this week so please look out for it then. Take care.
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Poker Pod Radio Show 110 With 2008 Player Of The Year John “The Razor” Phan Is up!
December 19, 2008
Join Host Jack McAdoo as he wraps up the year with his guest John “The Razor” Phan. John joins Poker Pod Radio doing his first interview since being named the 2008 Player Of The Year yesterday! Congrats John!!
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During the next few days, we will be updating the server with our new site. Once the switch happens the site will be down for up to 24 hours. You can still view this blog at that time at blog.pokerpodradio.com .
When the new site is up a message will be sent out to all of our subscribers to ask you to re-subscribe. If you do not you can still receive all the updates as you are now, and be directed to blog.pokerpodradio.com. Nothing has changed with ITunes, Podomatic, and all the other services that carry Poker Pod Radio.
We apologize in advance of the switch but we are excited to be growing at such a rapid pace! Show #110 will be on the new site as well.
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